The king of Saudi Arabia, Abdulá bin Abdulaziz, will initiate tomorrow his first official visit to Spain, which will have a strong economic profile, as the trip that last year the Spanish monarches did to Riyadh.
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The king and the delegation that he accompanies - between other high civil servants, the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Saud Al Faisal; Finance, Ibrahim Al Assaf; Work, Gazi Al Qusaibi and Information and Culture, Iyad Madani - will land in Madrid tomorrow at 17:30. The Kings of Spain will offer them a dinner of gala in the Royal Palace at 21:00.

On Tuesday, the monarch has a meeting foreseen to midday with businessmen and at 14:00 he will visit the Town hall of Madrid. Already in the evening, at 21:00, he will support a meeting followed by dinner with the prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in the Moncloa. Abdulá bin Abdulaziz will leave Madrid on Wednesday at 14:00.

Just before the visit, the Ministers' Council passed last Friday to grant to the Saudi king the Necklace of the Toisón of Gold.
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The images are of the arrival of the Kings to Saudi Arabia last year. The Kings will receive the king in the Palace of El Pardo. The Kings already never receive in the airport, it was stopped doing by safety questions. Always they do it in the Palace of El Pardo that is the residence of the Chiefs of State who visit Spain.

Since finally it seems that the King has decided to break with the habitual thing, and he has gone to the airport. It seems that he has wanted to honor his guest, because it isn´t habitual and it was not foreseen in the agenda.

Thank you very much, by the photos and the information. Queen Sofía, as always is magnificent. The king sees itself last very youthful. Both watch with great affection and complicity in the last photo. They also seem more united to his son who never. Greetings!

Crown Prince, Felipe de Borbon, Spanish Queen Sofia, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and Spain's King Juan Carlos I attend a farewell ceremony for Abdulaziz 20 June 2007 at El Pardo Palace, in Madrid, Spain. Saudi King finishes 20 June his first official visit in Spain after he succeeded his brother Fahd as Saudi Arabia's King